Great short stories
A short story is a narrative text with 1,500 up to 10,000 words. By definition, the form requires abruptness, wit or irony in its display of talent. Great short story writers (e.g. Machado de Assis, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway) demonstrate the extraordinary power of economy and radical condensation. Things typically come to a head in an instant of revelation. But, the methods of those authors have been imitated to the point of rigor mortis. It is hard to choose between understated renditions of glimpsing the abyss and the more popular alternative of murder, suicide, or rape galore. The formula has often been a substitute for imagination. Besides, some of the best short stories have been were plainly massacred by the cinema. Others have been more or less well adapted. Do watch the adaptations, but do read the originals as well.
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- RegistiBoris LabourguigneBastien RaynaudStelleCyrille Andrieu-LacuBenedicte CharpentierJean-Pierre DenuitIn the form of a video-journal, the narrator conveys his troubled thoughts and feelings of anguish. All around him, he senses the presence of a being that he calls the "Horla". The presence of the Horla becomes more and more intolerable to the protagonist.
- RegistaJean RenoirStelleSylvia BatailleJane MarkenGeorges D'ArnouxThe family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
- RegistaIosif KheifitsStelleIya SavvinaAleksey BatalovNina AlisovaA love story among the nobility of the Russian Empire: a man and a woman, both married, fall in love.
- RegistaRaul daSilvaStelleRoland CurramGeoffrey HutchingsMichael JohnsonHow a ship having passed the line was driven by storms to the cold country towards the south pole.
- RegistaIvan BarnettStelleGwen WatfordKaye TendeterIrving Steen1950. Horror. A traveller arrives at Usher mansion to visit his friend Roderick (Kaye Tendeter) and discovers that Roderick and his sister (Gwen Watford) have been inflicted with a strange disease.
- RegistaStuart GordonStelleLance HenriksenStephen LeeWilliam NorrisNel 1492 a Toledo, in Spagna, hanno luogo le crudeli gesta di un monaco di nome Torquemada, Grande Inquisitore dell'Inquisizione spagnola.
- RegistaRoger CormanStelleVincent PriceHazel CourtJane AsherUn principe europeo terrorizza i contadini locali e usa il suo castello come rifugio contro la pestilenza della "Morte Rossa" che dilaga nel territorio.
- RegistaEdgar G. UlmerStelleBoris KarloffBela LugosiDavid MannersAmerican honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
- RegistaClara van GoolStelleSarah ReynoldsDane HurstClaire JohnstonThe enigmatic love story of John Marcher and May Bartram. Their duet around an ominous secret is captured in a style both physical and poetic.
- RegistaMike BazaneleStelleJoel AlbrechtRebekah BazaneleGregory Stanley BlackA series of witnesses are summoned to give their accounts of the events leading up to the death of Mike Green and the disappearance of his girlfriend.
- RegistaAkira KurosawaStelleToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki MoriLo stupro di una sposa e l'assassinio del marito samurai sono ricordati dal punto di vista di un bandito, della sposa, del fantasma del samurai e di un taglialegna.
- RegistaConnor DoyleStelleCarlo BradyRachael CowanConnor DoyleAdapted from the short story by Franz Kafka, The Judgment is a psychological drama exploring themes of alienation, memory, and the lines between fantasy and reality. The film follows Georg Bendemann, a young merchant living 1900s Prague, who is struggling to maintain balance in an ever changing world. As his situation deteriorates due to complicated familial relationships, we are compelled to question the very nature of what we are seeing.
- RegistaNelson Pereira dos SantosStelleNildo ParenteIsabel RibeiroElza GomesIt's Christmas Eve and country boy Nogueira wants to see the Missa do Galo ("Rooster's Mass) while he stays on his uncle house located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's capital back in the late 1890's. After a nice dinner with family and a friend of the family, he is left alone waiting for the midnight hour just to see the mass, while his uncle is out - possibly having an affair with another woman - and everyone else is sleeping. He spends the night reading a book. Conceição is the uncle's wife and after a sleepless night she stays with the young boy talking about all sorts of things. The long night provides many surprises for both of them.
- RegistaMarcos FariasStelleIvan CândidoMaurício do ValleValmir DulcettiThe eternal love triangle in two different times. In 1871 and a hundred years later. Costumes change but the sentimental conflicts remain the same.
- RegistaSergio BianchiStelleRenato BorghiJosé Rubens ChacháRodrigo SantiagoTheater director asks his actors for a research on human cruelty and misery in Brazil, while trying to raise funds for his next production, a play based on a story by Machado de Assis, "A Causa Secreta" (The Secret Cause). The troupe oblige and go around town witnessing long lines in National Health Services, inhuman conditions in public hospitals and poor people being constantly humiliated. They find people are becoming indifferent to human suffering.
- StellaAdolphe Menjou
